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Tokyo Vice Season 2 Hits the Streets on February 8th: Official Trailer

Tokyo Vice returns to MAX on February 8th, continuing the fictionalized take on journalist Jake Adelstein's real-life exposé of the Yakuza.

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  • Tokyo Vice Season 2 premieres on MAX on February 8th, with Ansel Elgort leading.
  • The series explores deeper into Tokyo's underworld with increased stakes for Adelstein.
  • A ten-episode run, the show kicks off with two episodes, then one weekly release.
  • Tokyo Vice is a fictionalized drama inspired by Jake Adelstein's true yakuza encounters.

Tokyo Vice, the hit crime series loosely inspired by American journalist Jake Adelstein's first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat, returns on MAX on February 8th. Season two of the surprise hit series, filmed on location in Tokyo, takes us deeper into the city's criminal underworld as the fictional version of Adelstein (the more movie star-looking Ansel Elgort) comes to realize that his life, and the lives of those close to him, are in terrible danger. The TV version of Tokyo Vice was created and written by Tony Award-winning playwright J.T. Rogers. The ten-episode second season debuts with two episodes followed by one new episode weekly for eight weeks so you can get your fix of Yakuza crime action more regularly.

Tokyo Vice: Season 2 Debuts February 8th, Trailer Released
"Tokyo Vice Season Two" poster art: MAX

The series stars Golden Globe nominee Ansel Elgort, Academy Award nominee Ken Watanabe, Academy Award nominee Rinko Kikuchi, Rachel Keller, Show Kasamatsu, Ayumi Ito, and new series regulars Yosuke Kubozuka and Miki Maya.

J.T. Rogers and Emmy winner Alan Poul are executive producers alongside Alex Boden, Josef Kubota Wladyka, Brad Caleb Kane, Adam Stein, Ken Watanabe, Emmy winner Emily Gerson Saines, Ansel Elgort, Jake Adelstein, Kayo Washio, Destin Daniel Cretton, Academy Award winner John Lesher, and four-time Academy Award-nominee and Emmy winner Michael Mann, who directed the original pilot episode. From FIFTH SEASON and WOWOW, Japan's premium pay TV broadcaster. FIFTH SEASON handles global distribution for the series outside of Max-owned and operated platforms.

In the original book version of Tokyo Vice, Jake Adelstein's real-life encounters with the yakuza were actually wilder, more surreal, and more dangerous than those depicted in the TV series. The TV version condenses and simplifies several of the real-life characters into single characters to keep the story easier to follow, and the scripts conform more to the tropes of yakuza fiction than to the messiness of the real-life stories.

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Adi TantimedhAbout Adi Tantimedh

Adi Tantimedh is a filmmaker, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote radio plays for the BBC Radio, “JLA: Age of Wonder” for DC Comics, “Blackshirt” for Moonstone Books, and “La Muse” for Big Head Press. Most recently, he wrote “Her Nightly Embrace”, “Her Beautiful Monster” and “Her Fugitive Heart”, a trilogy of novels featuring a British-Indian private eye published by Atria Books, a division Simon & Schuster.
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